CDASA 1- IC Overview Questions and Answers Graded A+
What are the legal foundations for intelligence activities? - Answers National Security Act of
1947
Intel Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
Title 10 and Title 50 (USC)
EO 12333
What three organizations did the National Security Act of 1947 establish? - Answers National
Security Council
Director of Central Intelligence
Department of Defense
What established the DNI, intelligence planning centers, and defined national intelligence? -
Answers The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
What regulates funding for the IC, to include DOD elements? - Answers Title 10 and Title 50
What provides the legal foundation for EO 12333? - Answers Title 10 and Title 50
Which executive order extended the powers an responsibilities of U.S. intelligence, and was
amended to include and strengthen the role of the DNI? - Answers EO 12333
What two things does EO 12333 facilitate for the IC? - Answers Provides goals and
responsibilities for the national intelligence effort
Outlines the IC's oversight, elements, roles, and functionsasdfe
What's the difference between advisory boards and oversight boards? - Answers Advisory:
Ensure leadership (POTUS) is AWARE of intel activities
Oversight: Ensure intel activities are LAWFUL and consider privacy/liberty concerns
What three things does the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) advise the POTUS on?
- Answers - All agencies' intel activities and policy support
- Objectives, conduct, and coordination between IC elements
- Recommends improvements to intel efforts
Who chairs the IC Executive Committee (IC/EXCOM)?
- What 3 things does the IC/EXCOM advise on? - Answers - Chaired by DNI
, - Leadership, governance, and management issues within the IC
What three things does the Defense Intelligence Executive Board (DIEB) advise the SecDef on? -
Answers - Discussion forum for issues and challenges for defense intelligence
- Fiscal and programmatic guidance to the MIP
- Develop alternatives and recommendations for effective allocation of resources
What is the ISR Integration Council? - Answers - Senior DoD deliberative body for intelligence
issues
- Direction of ISR capabilities
- Facilitates transformative ISR capabilities
- Each service's integrators ensure organizations work toward the same goal and avoid
duplicative efforts
What two things does the Military Intelligence Board (MIB) do? - Answers - Senior board of
governors for the military elements of the IC
- Coordinates intelligence support to military operations
- Provides a forum to discuss topics headed to DIEB, IC/EXCOM, or other national level groups
- Assists in obtaining intelligence support to the military during crisis or contingency operations
What is the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB)? - Answers - Committee of the PIAB
- Informs POTUS on intelligence activities it believes are UNLAWFUL or contrary to
EOs/directives
- Advises POTUS on intel activities whose results should be immediately reported
What is the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board? - Answers - Advises
POTUS on civil liberty or privacy concerns
- Assisted by DHS (Chief Privacy Office) and ODNI (Civil Liberties Protection Office
- Established by IRTPA 2004
- Counterbalances DHS/IC consolidation
What are the two goals of the intelligence sharing architecture? - Answers - Support the full
range of military operations (to include disaster relief)
- Support intelligence requirements of decision makers (POTUS to tactical commanders)
What are the legal foundations for intelligence activities? - Answers National Security Act of
1947
Intel Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
Title 10 and Title 50 (USC)
EO 12333
What three organizations did the National Security Act of 1947 establish? - Answers National
Security Council
Director of Central Intelligence
Department of Defense
What established the DNI, intelligence planning centers, and defined national intelligence? -
Answers The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
What regulates funding for the IC, to include DOD elements? - Answers Title 10 and Title 50
What provides the legal foundation for EO 12333? - Answers Title 10 and Title 50
Which executive order extended the powers an responsibilities of U.S. intelligence, and was
amended to include and strengthen the role of the DNI? - Answers EO 12333
What two things does EO 12333 facilitate for the IC? - Answers Provides goals and
responsibilities for the national intelligence effort
Outlines the IC's oversight, elements, roles, and functionsasdfe
What's the difference between advisory boards and oversight boards? - Answers Advisory:
Ensure leadership (POTUS) is AWARE of intel activities
Oversight: Ensure intel activities are LAWFUL and consider privacy/liberty concerns
What three things does the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) advise the POTUS on?
- Answers - All agencies' intel activities and policy support
- Objectives, conduct, and coordination between IC elements
- Recommends improvements to intel efforts
Who chairs the IC Executive Committee (IC/EXCOM)?
- What 3 things does the IC/EXCOM advise on? - Answers - Chaired by DNI
, - Leadership, governance, and management issues within the IC
What three things does the Defense Intelligence Executive Board (DIEB) advise the SecDef on? -
Answers - Discussion forum for issues and challenges for defense intelligence
- Fiscal and programmatic guidance to the MIP
- Develop alternatives and recommendations for effective allocation of resources
What is the ISR Integration Council? - Answers - Senior DoD deliberative body for intelligence
issues
- Direction of ISR capabilities
- Facilitates transformative ISR capabilities
- Each service's integrators ensure organizations work toward the same goal and avoid
duplicative efforts
What two things does the Military Intelligence Board (MIB) do? - Answers - Senior board of
governors for the military elements of the IC
- Coordinates intelligence support to military operations
- Provides a forum to discuss topics headed to DIEB, IC/EXCOM, or other national level groups
- Assists in obtaining intelligence support to the military during crisis or contingency operations
What is the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB)? - Answers - Committee of the PIAB
- Informs POTUS on intelligence activities it believes are UNLAWFUL or contrary to
EOs/directives
- Advises POTUS on intel activities whose results should be immediately reported
What is the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board? - Answers - Advises
POTUS on civil liberty or privacy concerns
- Assisted by DHS (Chief Privacy Office) and ODNI (Civil Liberties Protection Office
- Established by IRTPA 2004
- Counterbalances DHS/IC consolidation
What are the two goals of the intelligence sharing architecture? - Answers - Support the full
range of military operations (to include disaster relief)
- Support intelligence requirements of decision makers (POTUS to tactical commanders)
